J. Cole’s latest album 4 Your Eyez Only is heading for a huge debut at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart, according to industry forecasters. Insiders project he will land around 550,000 equivalent album units earned in the week ending Dec. 15 — the third-largest debut of 2016.
Of J. Cole’s forecasted launch, traditional album sales could equal around 360,000 to 380,000 — Cole’s best sales week ever.
That would mark the third-biggest debut of 2016, behind only Drake’s Views (1.04 million units) and Beyonce’s Lemonade (653,000).
All three of his earlier studio albums debuted at No. 1: 2014 Forest Hills Drive, Born Sinner (2013) and Cole World: The Sideline Story (2011). Currently, his best sales week was racked up by the debut of 2014 Forest Hills Drive, with 354,000 sold in its first week, according to Nielsen Music.
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